‘Lack of professional integrity’: Toronto doctor convicted of sexually assaulting 3 patients loses medical licence – CTV
June 27, 2025
A Toronto doctor previously convicted of sexually assaulting three of his patients has officially lost his medical licence.
“These individuals came to your office expecting you to provide professional medical care in a safe environment. Instead, you exploited these medical encounters to pursue your own selfish needs,” the Ontario Physicians and Surgeons Discipline Tribunal told Dr. George Polemidiotis earlier this month.
Polemidiotis was arrested by Toronto police in 2021 and charged with nine counts of sexual assault and four counts of sexual exploitation after two women, aged 16 and 26 at the time, said they were sexually assaulted by the family doctor at a clinic in North York. According to court documents, one other patient was also sexually assaulted.
The sexual assaults took place between 2012 and 2019 and Polemidiotis was found guilty in 2023. He was sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in prison and his appeal in 2024 was dismissed.
In its ruling, the tribunal said that the criminal conviction “constitutes a guilty finding of an offence that is relevant to his (Polemidiotis’) suitability to practise.”
